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Charles Burns (born September 27, 1955) is an American cartoonist and illustrator.His early work was published in a Sub Pop fanzine, and he achieved prominence in the early issues of RAW.His graphic novel Black Hole won the Harvey Award.

Career[edit]

Comics[edit]

Charles Burns' earliest works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine, and Another Room Magazine of Oakland, California, but he came to prominence when his comics were published for the first time in early issues of RAW, the avant-garde comics magazine founded in 1980 by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman. In 1982, Burns did a die-cut cover for RAW #4. Raw Books also published two books of Burns as RAW One-Shots: Big Baby and Hard-Boiled Defective Stories.^[1] In 1994, he was awarded a Pew Fellowships in the Arts.^[2] In 1999, he showed at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.^[3]

Most of Burns' short stories, published in various supports over the decades, were later collected in the three volumes of the 'Charles Burns' Library' (hardcovers from Fantagraphics Books): El Borbah (1999),^[1]Big Baby (2000), and Skin Deep (2001). (A fourth and last volume, Bad Vibes, has yet to be published, which would have the Library collecting the entirety of his pre-Black Hole comics work. It was later stated that Burns did not feel there was enough material for a complete fourth volume.)^[4]

From 1993 to 2004, he serialized the 12 chapters of his Harvey Award-winning graphic novelBlack Hole (12 issues from Kitchen Sink Press and Fantagraphics Books). The series was collected into a single volume in 2005.^[5]Black Hole was featured prominently in the film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

In 2007 Burns contributed material for the French made animated horror anthology Fear(s) of the Dark.^[6]

In October 2010, Burns released the first part of a new series, X'ed Out.^[4] Part two of the new trilogy, The Hive, was released in October 2012.^[7]Sugar Skull, the final installment in the trilogy, was released Fall of 2014.^[8] The series was collected into a single volume, Last Look, published by Pantheon in 2016.^[9]

Illustration[edit]

Burns' high-profile illustrations include album cover work for the Iggy Pop album Brick by Brick. His art was also licensed by The Coca-Cola Company to illustrate product and advertising material for their failed OK Soda product. More recently, he has worked on advertising campaigns for Altoids and portrait illustrations for The Believer. In the early 1990s, his Dogboy stories were adapted by MTV as a live-action serial for Liquid Television. In 1991, choreographer Mark Morris commissioned him to create illustrations that were then used as a basis for his version of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, calling it The Hard Nut. Burns's style was a source of inspiration for Martin Ander's artwork for Fever Ray, Karin Dreijer Andersson's solo project.^[10]

Publications[edit]

Comics and Graphic Novels[edit]

• 1988 Hardboiled Defective Stories (Pantheon Books) ISBN0394754417
• 1991 Curse of the Molemen (Kitchen Sink Press) ISBN0878161341
• 1992 The Residents - Freak Show (Dark Horse Comics) ISBN978-1569710012
• 1995 Black Hole 1 (Kitchen Sink Press) ISBN978-0878163373
• 1995 Black Hole 2 (Kitchen Sink Press) ISBN978-1606990308
• 1996 Black Hole 3 (Kitchen Sink Press)
• 1997 Black Hole 4 (Kitchen Sink Press)
• 1998 Black Hole 5 (Fantagraphics Books)
• 1998 Black Hole 6 (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN978-1606990315
• 1999 El Borbah (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN1560973269
• 2000 Big Baby (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN1560973617
• 2000 Black Hole 7 (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN978-1606990322
• 2000 Black Hole 8 (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN978-1606990339
• 2001 Skin Deep: Tales of Doomed Romance (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN1560973900
• 2001 Black Hole 9 (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN978-1606990346
• 2002 Black Hole 10 (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN978-1606990292
• 2003 Black Hole 11 (Fantagraphics Books)
• 2004 Black Hole 12 (Fantagraphics Books)
• 2005 Black Hole (Pantheon Books) ISBN978-0375714726

• 2010 X'ed Out (Pantheon Books) ISBN978-0307379139
• 2012 The Hive (Pantheon Books) ISBN978-0307907882
• 2014 Sugar Skull (Pantheon Books) ISBN978-0307907905
• 2016 Last Look (Pantheon Books) ISBN978-0375715174
• 2019 Dédales (Cornélius, France) ISBN978-2360811649

Illustration books[edit]

• 1998 Facetasm, Green Candy Press (in collaboration with Gary Panter)
• 2007 One Eye (Pantheon Books) ISBN978-1897299043
• Permagel, French A3 sized publication in black and white
• Love Nest, Éditions Cornélius, hardcover
• Vortex, Éditions Cornélius, hardcover, full color
• Johnny 23, Le Dernier Cri

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abEl Borbah / Hard-Boiled Defective Stories at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on December 2, 2015.
2. ^'Artist Profile: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage'. Pcah.us. Archived from the original on 2013-09-09. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
3. ^'Charles Burns'. Tfaoi.com. 1999-12-05. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
4. ^ ^ab'Charles Burns is 'X'ed Out''. Comic Book Resources. 2010-10-18. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
5. ^Burns, Charles (2005). Black Hole. Pantheon. ISBN9780375423802.
6. ^Charles Burns on IMDb
7. ^'The Hive by Charles Burns « Knopf Doubleday - Graphic Novels'. Graphic-novels.knopfdoubleday.com. 2012-06-13. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
8. ^http://www.digitalspy.com/comics/news/a531654/charles-burnss-sugar-skull-debuts-first-image.html
9. ^http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539887/last-look-by-charles-burns/9780375715174/
10. ^Willens, Max (28 September 2009). 'Fever Ray Likes Google Image Search, Has No Master Plan'. The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 28 March 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2011.

External links[edit]

• Charles Burns page at Fantagraphics - Books in print from this publisher.
• Brian Heater, 'Interview: Charles Burns Pt. 1', The Daily Cross Hatch, (November 10, 2008).
• 'I'm Slowly Learning to Draw Every Human Being in the United States,' Interview with Hillary Chute, The Believer, January 2008

• Charles Burns at Lambiek's Comiclopedia
• Charles Burns at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

Black Hole

From one of the most fiercely admired graphic artists at work today comes a gothic masterpiece of existential fear and loathing, more than a decade in the making and already being hailed as a classic. Set in suburban Seattle in the mid-1970s, it is a horror tale unlike any other. The first issues of Charles Burns's comics series Black Hole began appearing in 1995, and long before it was completed a decade later, readers and fellow artists were speaking of it in tones of awe and comparing it to recent classics of the form like Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan and Daniel Clowes's Ghost World. Burns is the sort of meticulous, uncompromising artist whom other artists speak of with envy and reverence, and we asked Ware and Clowes to comment on their admiration for Black Hole:

'I think I probably learned the most about clarity, composition, and efficiency from looking at Charles's pages spread out on my drawing table than from anyone's; his was always at the level of lucidity of Nancy, but with this odd, metallic tinge to it that left you feeling very unsettled, especially if you were an aspiring cartoonist, because it was clear you'd never be half as good as he was. There's an almost metaphysical intensity to his pinprick-like inkline that catches you somewhere in the back of the throat, a paper-thin blade of a fine jeweler's saw tracing the outline of these thick, clay-like human figures that somehow seem to 'move,' but are also inevitably oddly frozen in eternal, awkward poses .. it's an unlikely combination of feelings, and it all adds up to something unmistakably his own.

'I must have been one of the first customers to arrive at the comic shop when I heard the first issue of Black Hole was out 10 years ago, and my excitement didn't change over the years as he completed it. I don't think I've ever read anything that better captures the details, feelings, anxieties, smells, and cringing horror of my own teenage years better than Black Hole, and I'm 15 years younger than Charles is. Black Hole is so redolently affecting one almost has to put the book down for air every once in a while. By the book's end, one ends up feeling so deeply for the main character it's all one can do not to turn the book over and start reading again.' --Chris Ware

'Charles Burns is one of the greats of modern comics. His comics are beautiful on so many levels. Somehow he has managed to capture the essential electricity of comic-book pop-art iconography, dragging it from the clutches of Fine Art back to the service of his perfect, precise-but-elusive narratives in a way that is both universal in its instant appeal and deeply personal.' --Dan Clowes Otomax keygen software mac free.